Friday, February 20, 2015

It's my new one--The Brat Runs Home--where a sexy stepdaughter seduces her good old stepdad. He thinks he's done with sex. His wife is always out sleeping with younger guys, and that's all well and good, but he's happy to sit by the fire with a cup of tea and a good book.

When I arrived at the top of the stairs, I caught sight of my stepdaughter in my bedroom. If I didn’t know better, I’d have mistaken her for Lila. For one thing, she was standing by our dresser with her back to me, trying on her mother’s earrings in the mirror. She’d wrapped her long hair in a towel the way Lila had done in the days when she’d worn her hair that way. Misty also had on her mother’s kimono, which was a distressingly lime-like shade of green.

She turned and caught me staring.

Before I could find an explanation for my leering gaze, she pointed to the bag and said, “That all needs to go in the washing machine.”

“Oh.” So it really was laundry.

“Can you throw my other clothes in, too?” She indicated the bathroom, which looked as though it had been hit by a tornado of young adult clothing.

“What will you wear tonight?” I asked.

“This,” she replied, nodding to her mother’s kimono as she secured Lila’s rubies around her neck.